Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 8/25/25
Apropos of the Crackle Barrel logo frenzy going on: How many of you decide whether or not to eat at a restaurant based on its logo?! We generally make decisions based on the advice of trusted friends and colleagues. Can you
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 8/18/25
The law of unintended consequences. (Bear in mind I’ve been married for 57 years—to the same woman.) We once had two dogs, Koufax, a white German Shepherd, and Buddy Beagle. Their spirits remain alive within my comic strip, The Adventures of
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 8/11/25
There are mythological and colloquial ramifications to “the ninth wave.” In Irish folklore it is a barrier separating this earthly world from “The Other World.” It is also a painting of a shipwreck by Ivan Aivezovsky where sailors struggle against
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 8/4/25
If all those people who get up in the morning and start yapping about "toxic workplaces" until they went to bed again spent a quarter of that time asking themselves, "How can I perform better, how can I contribute more?"
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 7/28/25
Have you noticed how LOUD everything is these days? Conversations in restaurants can be heard across the room. On public conveyances—trains, planes, ferries, buses—people are screaming. In one restaurant, the server had to lean on our table to get close
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 7/21/25
Late night goes darker. In the pantheon of the greats, Koufax was untouchable as a pitcher, Brady will never be equaled as a quarterback, no one sang the Great American Songbook better than Sinatra, Warren Buffet certainly stands alone in his
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 7/14/25
I must be purblind. I have never seen a living unicorn. Yet, apparently, there is a surfeit of them roaming the streets, since everyone and his dog is claiming to be a unicorn. A coaching client of mine once went ballistic
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 7/7/25
We have just celebrated the Fourth of July (Independence Day) in the US, even though the Revolutionary War didn’t end until the surrender of Cornwallis and the Treaty of Paris in 1787. This celebration has been a constant in my
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 6/30/25
The Fourth of July (Independence Day) celebrates July 4, 1776 which was the Declaration of Independence. “We hold these truths to be self-evident….” came from the magnificent pen of Thomas Jefferson. The American Revolutionary War did not end until 1783—another seven
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 6/23/25
I’m a “reductionist,” meaning I try to make things as simple as possible. For example, never try to “sell” to a non-buyer, who can say “no” but can’t say “yes.” Or that discretionary time is real wealth, and you must
